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Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, in finding ourselves, or losing ourselves. ![]() Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. “An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” - Los Angeles Timesįrom the award-winning author of Orwell's Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness-not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. ![]() ![]() All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon after moving to the rural prairie, Norris developed a relationship with the nearby Benedictine abbey, which led to her eventually becoming an oblate. Instead, they ended up remaining in South Dakota for the next 25 years. 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At the Dragon he played rugby, and shot at Bisley.īefore turning full-time author, he was an ITN reporter and newscaster for two years, the New York City correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's The Sunday Express, and then worked for nearly twenty years on The Times five as its chief reporter, and latterly as a Middle East and Far East specialist. From an early age he was interested in spy novels carrying around Buchan's Greenmantle and Kipling's Kim stories about India. It must have resonated with his writings in the history of the lawless frontiers of the British Empire. The family hailed originally from the borders of Scotland in Roxburghshire where there was a rich history of barbaric raids and reivers hanging justice. Hopkirk was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford. He grew up at Danbury, Essex, notable for the historic palace of the Bishop of Rochester. 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